Re: Building the .info files in build directory.

[Simon Josefsson]

Simon Richter <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> [Info files being built in source dir]
>
>> FWIW, having a read only source directory is our goal.
>
> When the source dir is readonly, noone can change the texinfo files. If
> noone can change the texinfo files, there is no need to rebuild the info
> files, so it doesn't matter that they're in a readonly directory.

I don't think this is true in general, a texinfo file could @include a
file that is built during the build phase.

(For example, I generate Texinfo code documenting the library based on
comments in the source files, and some source files may be generated,
as in foo.h.in -> foo.h to add version information to a header file.
Compare http://josefsson.org/gdoc/.)